CVE-2009-0489: David Paleino Wicd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DBus configuration file for Wicd before 1.5.9 allows arbitrary users to own org.wicd.daemon, which allows local users to receive messages that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials.

Affected products

• David Paleino Wicd: up to and including 1.5.8; version 1.2.7 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; …

Published 2009-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.